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...used to climb the PTI building and try to raid its offices. One of my predecessors glued shut the windows in our office to keep the marauding animals out. The arrival of the langur took things to another level. With their sharp teeth and long, muscular tail that can swot an errant ape from a couple of feet away, langurs are scary to humans - not just a smaller rhesus monkey. Khan says business is good, despite the recent proliferation of competitors. The company he works for employs twelve langurs, including two that he was using to guard our building last...
...rudeboy," he says during a lunchtime lull at London's Financial Times, which is letting him work part-time at his job editing business feature stories while he promotes the book. (A U.S. tour is scheduled for the summer.) "Not at all. At school I was a swot, into books." But Malkani did grow up firmly in the middle of desi culture, despite his mother's insistence that he speak English at home instead of Urdu or his father's ancestral Sindhi. "At Cambridge I did a social sciences degree, and when it came time for my dissertation, I said...
...MITA's paper reads like a prospectus intent on wooing tech in-vestors. It details how earlier plans to make Singapore a Renaissance City have been upgraded; the new plan is called "Renaissance City 2.0", and apparently a "SWOT (strengths, weaknesses, opportunities and threats) Analysis" shows that "cultural capital" working in "creative clusters" will turn Singapore into a "creative economy". In May, the government actually revealed a mathematical formula for creating cultural capital...
What Every Swot Should Know. Then again, in a more realistic vein he ofers the molesworth bogus report card ("Destroy reel report when it comes along") and the invaluable molesworth self-adjusting thank-you letter...
Finally, in such essays as "Akquire Culture and Keep the Brane Clean," nigel sets forth not only what every young swot should know, but his own philosophy of life...